UTSA Student Government Association announces election winners
Left to Right: Christian Kenney, Ileana Gonzalez, Lauren Lopez, Jaswanth Kintada
Left to Right: Christian Kenney, Ileana Gonzalez, Lauren Lopez, Jaswanth Kintada
(March 5, 2015) -- The UTSA Student Government Association (SGA) announced March 5 the winners of the March 3-4 elections. One thousand sixty-five (1,065) or 4.2 percent of eligible UTSA students voted in the election.
Ileana Gonzalez, a senior entrepreneurship major from Guadalajara, Mexico, was elected SGA president for the 2015-2016 academic year. She served the past year as SGA treasurer. Gonzalez is the first female elected SGA president since Christina Gomez was the president for the 2008-2009 academic year. Christian Kenney was elected vice president. Kenney is a junior cyber security major from Sonora, Texas.
Students elected Jaswanth Kintada, a sophomore biology major from San Antonio, as SGA treasurer and Lauren Lopez, a junior multidisciplinary studies major from Channel View, Texas, as secretary.
The new administration will take office during the annual SGA banquet and inauguration ceremony on April 12. Newly elected senators also will take office at the event. The officers will participate in a transition retreat on March 29 and will conduct their first SGA meeting at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 16 in the University Center Harris Room (2.212) on the Main Campus.
The student body also passed a new constitution for SGA with 77 percent of the voters approving the new document. The document will now be routed through UTSA’s administration and ultimately to the University of Texas System for final approval.
Students also engaged in a poll whereby 69 percent indicated they were not in support of proposed Texas legislative bills (SB 11, SB 17, and HB 937) which would allow the carry of handguns on campus. Thirty-one percent voted they were in favor of the proposed legislation.
------------------------------SGA Spring 2015 election results
President
Ileana Gonzalez, 58% (623 votes)
Jeff Schilder, 41% (435 votes)
Write-in, 1% (7 votes)
Vice President
Christian Kenney, 59% (544 votes)
William Franklin Trynoski, II, 41% (375 votes)
Write-in, <1% (3votes)
Secretary
Alandra Lawrence, 38% (350 votes)
Lauren Lopez, 62% (566 votes)
Write-in, <1% (2 votes)
Treasurer
Jaswanth Raj Kintada, 62% (559 votes)
Amber Cotten, 37% (335 votes)
Write-in, 1% (1 vote)
SGA Constitution and By-Laws
In Favor, 77% (492 votes)
Against, 23% (151 votes)
Campus Carry Opinion
In Support, 31% (261 votes)
Not In Support, 69% (570 votes)
Homecoming Theme Opinion
Toon Into Greatness! 44% (360 votes)
Live Long and Prosper! 29% (233 votes)
2015: A Rowdy Odyssey! 21% (170 votes)
Write-In, 6% (53 votes)
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